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Findspot record TQ 56 NE 246 - Saxon axe and spearheads

Summary

Maidstone Museum has a Saxon axe and spearheads said to be from an inhumation found near Chapel Farm.

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Grid reference	TQ 5650 6950 (point)
Map sheet	TQ56NE
County	KENT
Civil Parish	HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District	SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Maidstone Museum has a Saxon axe and spearheads said to be from an inhumation found near Chapel Farm. The latter cannot be located but may be near the chapel site near St Margaret's Farm. Alternatively, they may have come from either of the the inhumation cemeteries, TQ 56 NE 6 or 8. (1,3)

Chapel Farm is now believed to be opposite the Jolly Miller's pub. (2)

<1> 1964, A Gazetteer of Early Anglo Saxon Burial Sites 1964 108 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE32786.

<2> Del Cook, Verbal communication: Del Cook (Verbal communication). SKE58808.

<3> Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE29253.

Sources/Archives (3)

<1> SKE32786 OS Card Reference: 1964. A Gazetteer of Early Anglo Saxon Burial Sites 1964 108 (A Meaney).
<2> SKE58808 Verbal communication: Del Cook. Verbal communication: Del Cook.
<3> SKE29253 Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent.